Problem with Field Separators

Problem with Field Separators

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Jamie Anderso#1 / 2

Problem with Field Separators

Hello all, I am writing a small script to parse a colon-delimited file and generate a list of users. The system has GNU awk 3.03. I am calling gawk with the argument '-F :', but it is splitting the fields both on spaces and colons, which is not what I want. I once used an almost identical script on a system with an older version of gawk, and I never had this problem, even though I called gawk with the same argument. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jamie Anderson

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Mon, 18 Feb 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Jamie Anderso#2 / 2

Problem with Field Separators

Please ignore, it turns out the problem was not in awk, but rather the way I was passing input to it. Sorry.

Jamie

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